Iran to ease some restrictions on women attending sports events

Iran to ease some restrictions on women attending sports events

April 5 Tehran: Iran’s Deputy Sports Minister Abdolhamid Ahmadi announced in state-run media the plan to allow “women and families” in sport arenas beginning next year while talking to Press TV. The ban was instated after the 1979 Iranian revolution, when it was decided that men and women attending games together was “un-Islamic.”

Iran will be allowed to attend certain types of sporting events, something that has been illegal for most of the past 36 years. However, the ban will be lifted only for indoor sporting events. Women and families will still be banned from the country’s most popular sporting events, such as soccer games, Ahmadi said to Press TV.

According to The Jerusalem Times During former president Mohammad Khatami’s time in power from 1997 to 2005, women were allowed to attend volleyball games, though that freedom was revoked after his successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005.
In November 2014, British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami was sentenced to one year in jail after she and others demanded that women be allowed in to watch a volleyball match between Iran and Italy at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. She was pardoned on Thursday, five months into her sentence and after almost a year in custody. The Oslo Times

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April 5 Tehran: Iran’s Deputy Sports Minister Abdolhamid Ahmadi announced in state-run media the plan to allow “women and families” in sport arenas beginning next year while talking to Press TV. The ban was instated after the 1979 Iranian revolution, when it was decided that men and women attending games together was “un-Islamic.”

Iran will be allowed to attend certain types of sporting events, something that has been illegal for most of the past 36 years. However, the ban will be lifted only for indoor sporting events. Women and families will still be banned from the country’s most popular sporting events, such as soccer games, Ahmadi said to Press TV.

According to The Jerusalem Times During former president Mohammad Khatami’s time in power from 1997 to 2005, women were allowed to attend volleyball games, though that freedom was revoked after his successor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was elected in 2005.
In November 2014, British-Iranian woman Ghoncheh Ghavami was sentenced to one year in jail after she and others demanded that women be allowed in to watch a volleyball match between Iran and Italy at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. She was pardoned on Thursday, five months into her sentence and after almost a year in custody. The Oslo Times